BURNSIDE’S EXPEDITION CROSSING HATTERAS BAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Cemetery Stones
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: MIKE WINTERMANTEL
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
ON JANUARY 11, 1862, THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION LEFT FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA DESTINED FOR THE HATTERAS INLET 120 MILES TO THE SOUTH. TWO DAYS LATER, THE FLEET OF OVER EIGHTY VESSELS WAS STRUCK BY A STRONG NORTHEASTER WHILE CROSSING HATTERAS BAR. AMONG THE SHIPS LOST WERE THE POCHONTAS, GRAPESHOT AND CITY OF NEW YORK.
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